Jonas,

>> I have a bcm6328 based board, and I'd like to have its DSL capability
>> working. I read there is no open source driver yet. Can anyone tell me
>> if it is possible to compile some proprietary source code in order to
>> test if it works?
> 
> No. Well, mabye, if you had the source code (which isn't public, since
> it's proprietary) and modify it to work with the OpenWrt kernel. Which
> would likely require intimate knowledge of the driver's inner
> workings.
> 
>> On the other hand, I have the original firmware's kernel modules, e.g.
>> adsldd.ko, which are compiled for some older kernel version (linux
>> 2.6.8, if I remember correctly). I wonder if I could downgrade the
>> kernel version of OpenWrt in order to make it work.
> 
> No. There is no OpenWrt version ever supporting such an old kernel,
> and the DSL driver requires a heavily modified network stack to work,
> which you would need to port to OpenWrt first (and re-import the
> broadcom mips code base so that any kernel functions expected by the
> driver are present).
> 
> Regards
> Jonas
Thanks for clarifying.

Regards.
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